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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I actually *have* had difficulty buying books outside the US. Techie though I am, I've never set up an IP mask to look like I'm in the UK, and I'm not sure where or how to set up a gift card with... who? Waterstones? I don't know.
I've asked on MR before, but the general Scary Geo-Restrictions vibe has been enough to clarify to me that We Don't Talk About Fight Club here. Not surprisingly, there isn't THAT much that I was able to find on Google for buying UK-only books. (US-only books, yes. UK-only books, no.)
I could PROBABLY figure it out if I invested 30+ hours in the project. (Or I could get ripped off by a scam convert-your-money-into-a-gift-card company.) Instead I think I'll use 1DollarScan, but that's coming from a position of money privilege: ABBYY isn't cheap.
Still, the idea that It's So Easy to work around geo-restrictions seems to me to be something that only seems easy to the people who've already done it. :/
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I use an Entropay virtual credit card and give the store a UK address. I buy UK ebooks from Kobo while in the US, without using a VPN. This costs the credit card fee, but it has worked at foyles and the old WHSmith site as well as Kobo.